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G. W. SOULE.

BOX PACKING PRESS.

No. 279,198. 'Patented June 12,1883.

Invenor Mohn/MOM@ N. PETERS Phmljlhugraphef, Waihinginn. D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

GEORGE w. SOU'LE, OF BOSTON, MAsSAOHUSETTS.

BOX-PACKING PRESS.

SPECIFICATION formingpartof Letters Patent No. 279,198, dated June 12, 1883.

' Application led April 23, 1833. (No model.) V

To @ZZ whom it mag/ concern- Be it known that I, GEORGE WASHINGTON SOULE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, of

the Commonwealth oi' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Box- Packing Presses; and I do'hereby declare the same to be described in the following speciiication and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whioh-V Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, Fig. 3 a transverse section, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, of a press of my improved kind. Fig. 5 is a front view, and Fig. 6 a transverse section, ofthe grooved bar, to be described, such section being taken about midway between the middle and one end of such bar. Fig. 7 is a front view of one of the lever-slides used in the grooves of such bar.

My improvement has reference to a press of this kind for which Letters Patent ofthe United States numbered 155, 047, dated September l5, 1879, were granted to me. In that press the bar was provided with toothed racks, and the bent arms to operate with such bar had studs to engage with the racks, the rack-teeth being on the upper edge of the said bar. This construction limited the positions in which the bent arms could be arranged relatively to the middle of the bar. firmer or better adjustments of the arms can be effected, such being the object of my invention, the nature of which is dened in the claims hereinafter presented.

In carrying out my present improvement the bar represented at E is grooved on one side each groove a there is such a slide, I-I, which,`

formed as shown in Fig. 7, is pivoted near its outer end to one of the pair of hooked arms G G, near its upper end. The slide i's inclined on its outer end or part from the point to the lower edge ofthe said slide in manner as shown at w x. This causes the weight and draft of the hooked arm to cause the slide to act as a lever in the groove, the fulcrum of which le- With my improvementv ver would be at w. In other words, the slide is caused to bear at the angle x on the bottom of the groove and at the angle y on the top of such groove, such operating to prevent the slide from slipping in the groove while the press is in use.

In the drawings, A denotes the press-screw, having its head provided with a handle, B. This screw, at its end, is pivoted to a base or bar, C, while at its neck the screw is journaled in the upper part of a standard, D, erected on and fastened to such bar C, all being as shown.

A groove, 7c, in and around the neck of the1 screw, receives the end of a screw, Z, screwed into the standard, the same serving to prevent .the screw A from rising on the standard. The

said screw A screws into and through the bar E. The bar C, which is usually termed the presshead,7 is furcatedor slotted from each end toward the middle of such bar, the slots being shown at s s, they being to receive the arms G G, which pass down through them, and are free to move in them, as occasion may require.

For convenience of manipulating each ,of hooked arms G, there is applied to the upper part of it a handle, 7L, which is a Strap or leather connected at or near its ends to the arm. By taking hold of the handle the arm, when not drawn downward, can easily be moved outwardly or inwardly relatively to the screw, as may be required, to adapt the arms to a packing-box.

In order to use the press in settling down or condensing goods into a case or box, the pack o r pile of such goods being supposed to project out of and above the mouth of the box, the cover ofthe box, or one or more boards of proper dimensions, should be laid on the top ofthe pack or pile. Next, the press should be laid across the cover or boards, so as to have the bar C rest thereon, after which the arms G are to be drawn in, so as to bring the barbs of their hooks against the two opposite sides ofthe box.

The said barbs should next be driven into the case the arms G G may be hooked into the said IOO chain, instead of being driven into the sides of the box.

To support eaeh arm G by means of the bar C there proj eets from the arm a stud, i, which, on the arm dropping downward snieiently, rests on the said bar. l

I herein make no claim to the press made as represented in my Patent No. 155,047, herein- Vbefore referred to, but

ver-slides H H, arranged in the said grooves and pivoted to the hooked arms G G, as set 15 forth.

2. The hooked arms G G, provided with the studs i z", and Combined and adapted to open ate substantially as described, with the bar E, base C, screw A, and standard D, arranged 2o as set forth.

GEORGE WASHINGTON SOULE. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. 

